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Hello, I’m importing a CSV and some of the cells are importing as scientific notation (2.08019E+13
). I’m using the data in the cell for a later step, and it needs be standard (ex. 20801900000000 ). I see no Formatter option that would work, and I’ve tried a java code step several times and still can’t figure it out. Though I think a code step is probably the only thing that will work (eventually), I wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions?

Also, I did change my Excel data conversion settings to not format as scientific notation, and that did not work.

Thank you kindly.

Hi ​@DenverGuzzi 

Help us have more info by posting screenshots showing how your Zap steps are outlined and configured in EDIT mode with the field mappings visible.

 

Try these options:

 

Use a Single Quote (')

  • Enter '1234567890123456

 

Manually Format CSV Data as Text Before Importing

  • If generating a CSV manually, wrap long numbers in double quotes:
    "1234567890123456"

 

Thank you! I will try this. If it doesn’t work, I’ll be sure to post additional details.

We’ll, still no luck, it’s keeping scientific notation. I placed the (‘) in the only place I thought I could. Below are my steps. While the test data in Step 3 Device Identifier is not in scientific notation, I ran several tests by importing CSV’s containing scientific notations. Step 4 is to find and remove (‘) .Step 5 uses the output from Step 4 to search a database.

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

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